Milan-listed tanker player d'Amico International Shipping (DIS) has sold one of its oldest tankers, adding to a string of similar deals it struck last year.

The transaction provides yet further evidence of a remarkably lively secondhand market for that particular type of ship, as it comes amid other similar deals reported by brokers over the past 10 days.

DIS said on Tuesday it has agreed to divest the 51,100-dwt High Venture (built 2006), one of the three oldest vessels in its owned and chartered fleet of 38 product tankers.